Board report is due

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

The quarterly board report is coming due (March 10th).

Here's a proposed draft; please reply with edits / corrections, etc.

Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2015.

Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.

Dates:  (These have not changed since previous report)
23 Oct 2014    last release
12 Mar 2013    last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013    last Committer addition
           
Releases:
  None this quarter, but we've had many release candidates posted for
  the main UIMAJ SDK; it currently has a vote pending on on the release.
     
Other Activity:

4 talks involving UIMA were submitted to Apachecon 2015, and
2 were accepted; a 3rd one is "pending" and may be accepted
depending on whether or not a slot opens up.

Core UIMA, UIMA DUCC, and UIMA Ruta are all quite active.

The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing
work continues.

Community:

The community continues to be active, with some new contributions coming in,
especially for UIMA Ruta. UIMA-DUCC continues to have some traffic on the
email lists as users start using it.
 
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.

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-Marshall

Re: Board report is due

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Here's the report as sent to the board:

Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2015.

Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
UIMA Oasis Standard.

Dates: 
06 Mar 2015    last release
12 Mar 2013    last PMC addition
24 Dec 2013    last Committer addition
          
Releases:
  UIMA Java SDK 2.7.0 was just released, it has many significant
  improvements and fixes. http://uima.apache.org/news.html#06 March 2015
    
Other Activity:

4 talks involving UIMA were submitted to Apachecon 2015, and
2 were accepted; a 3rd one is "pending" and may be accepted
depending on whether or not a slot opens up.

Core UIMA, UIMA DUCC, and UIMA Ruta are all quite active.

The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing
work continues.

Community:

The community continues to be active, with some new contributions coming in,
especially for UIMA Ruta. UIMA-DUCC continues to have some traffic on the
email lists as users start using it.
 
Issues:
No Board level issues at this time.

Re: Board report is due

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

I'll update this draft to indicate the release of UIMA 2.7.0.

-Marshall

On 3/3/2015 11:12 AM, Marshall Schor wrote:
> The quarterly board report is coming due (March 10th).
>
> Here's a proposed draft; please reply with edits / corrections, etc.
>
> Board report for Apache UIMA, for March 2015.
>
> Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source
> software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the
> UIMA Oasis Standard.
>
> Dates:  (These have not changed since previous report)
> 23 Oct 2014    last release
> 12 Mar 2013    last PMC addition
> 24 Dec 2013    last Committer addition
>            
> Releases:
>   None this quarter, but we've had many release candidates posted for
>   the main UIMAJ SDK; it currently has a vote pending on on the release.
>      
> Other Activity:
>
> 4 talks involving UIMA were submitted to Apachecon 2015, and
> 2 were accepted; a 3rd one is "pending" and may be accepted
> depending on whether or not a slot opens up.
>
> Core UIMA, UIMA DUCC, and UIMA Ruta are all quite active.
>
> The mailing lists are fairly active, and normal bug finding/fixing
> work continues.
>
> Community:
>
> The community continues to be active, with some new contributions coming in,
> especially for UIMA Ruta. UIMA-DUCC continues to have some traffic on the
> email lists as users start using it.
>  
> Issues:
> No Board level issues at this time.
>
> --------
> -Marshall
>
>